Kenneth Clarke

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Father of the House, Ken Clarke, joins James O'Brien on this week's episode of Full Disclosure. Walking James through his near-50 years as a Member of Parliament, from the rise of Margaret Thatcher to the fall of parliamentary decorum during Brexit proceedings, Ken recalls his highs and lows for this week's installment of James' brand new podcast. Full Disclosure is an in depth interview series chatting to the world's most fascinating people, hosted by James O'Brien. Rate and subscribe on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts and connect with James on Twitter: @mrjamesob

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0:00.0	With so many holiday homes on booking.com, there are so many Tina Faye's I could be.
0:04.7	I could book a beach house and be relaxed, Tina.
0:07.8	Could someone bring me everything, thank you?
0:10.7	I could book a ski cabin and be sporty, Tina.
0:13.6	I'm going to skip the black diamond and do the hot chocolate run.
0:17.1	Or maybe I'll book a villa in Italy and be Vespa Tina.
0:21.6	Do I look cool on it? Because I feel cool.
0:24.4	With so many holiday homes, you can book whoever you want to be.
0:28.0	Booking.com, booking. Yeah.
0:30.1	This is a global original podcast.
0:36.2	Hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure, an opportunity to dive a little
0:41.4	deeper into people who are usually instantly recognisable.
0:47.4	And that description certainly fits my guest today, Ken Clark.
0:52.2	Normally the format here is that we take a leisurely stroll through your backstory, as
0:56.3	they call it, and then 10 minutes on the sort of the current, urgent issues of the moment.
1:01.1	But I suspect we're going to have to do it the other way around, given that the current
1:03.8	urgent issues at the moment are so immense.
1:05.7	Well, possibly, and my life is so long now, and I'm getting on a bit.
1:09.1	And it's just because we can go on and on, boring way.
1:12.2	Do you know? But do you know what it is, the 40th anniversary of today?
1:17.0	40th anniversary today? I had no idea.
1:19.5	Forrest Cologne, 3-3.
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